Europe’s major port operators have shot down the latest EU proposal to shift investments to peripheral ports in the Mediterranean, saying that the allocation of EUR 12 billion (USD 15.3bn) funds should not be motivated by geopolitics and cohesion policies.
European Observation Network for Territorial Development and Cohesion (ESPON) proposed an European investment policy to interlink second-tier cities and to enhance Mediterranean port infrastructure in order to facilitate container flows between Europe and Asia